
AVP - Automation Head (Ste Job/ 22)
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Job Description
The Assistant Vice President of Data Center Automation is a senior leadership role responsible for driving the automation, optimization, and security of data center operations. This position oversees Building Management System (BMS) operations, and OSS/BSS (Operational Support Systems/Business Support Systems) functions, ensuring seamless integration, efficiency, and resilience across all systems. The ideal candidate will possess a strong technical background, strategic vision, and proven experience in managing large-scale data center and telecom/IT service environments.
Duties & Responsibilities:
1. System Architecture & Design - Must
- Define and document the overall control architecture, including:
- PLC/DDC network hierarchy and supervisory levels.
- OT LAN segmentation, VLAN design, and IP plan.
- Redundancy and failover logic for automation systems.
- Develop IO lists, control philosophy documents and functional design specifications (FDS).
- Coordinate between MEP consultants, controls contractors, and operations to align automation design.
2. Control System Development - Must
- Author control sequence logic for:
- Power systems: Need to have good understanding of the capacity framework and working design of UPS, LV/MV switchgear, gensets, fuel systems, PDUs
- Cooling systems: Need to have good understanding of the capacity framework and working design of chillers, CRAHs, pumps, valves, cooling towers, heat exchangers.
- Configure and validate PLCs, DDCs, and SCADA servers (Schneider / Siemens / Rockwell / Honeywell).
- Standardize data points and naming conventions across all systems.
- Implement interoperability via BACnet/IP, Modbus TCP/IP, OPC-UA, and MQTT brokers for telemetry aggregation.
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Technical Scope of Work 1. System Architecture & Design - Must
2. Control System Development - Must
3. Commissioning & Validation - Must
4. OT & Cybersecurity Governance - Great to Have
5. Operations Enablement - Must
6. Continuous Optimization - Must
Deliverables
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Preferred Skills
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering or equivalent practical experience, Mechanical, Electrical or Controls degree preferred.
- Excellent understanding of industry-standard electrical and mechanical systems used in data centers, as well as controls/monitoring systems.
- Experience of 15 + years in designing, configuring, programming, installing, troubleshooting, or servicing HVAC Controls and Electrical SCADA systems application specific controllers, Building Management System (BMS) Controls software and networks.
- Develop and modify controls logic programming and graphical user interfaces.
- Manage multiple stakeholder deliverables, requirements and navigate challenging situations.
- Project coordination experience with multiple teams or vendors to meet project requirements for data centers.
- TCP/IP, MQTT, BACnet and/or MODBUS communication protocol experience.
- Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite and project management software